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What is Gnutella?

Gnutella can be described as a tag-based, decentral search engine, when you like current internet lingo. A simpler description is: Gnutella is a decentral p2p network and filesharing system.

On this page you can find in depth information on its inner workings in easily readable style, which can be understood without requiring a degree in computer science or coding skills.

GnuFU: Gnutella For Users

Gnutella for Users is meant to be a users Guide to Gnutella. It contains Information on the inner workings of the Gnutella FileSharing System and Network in a way, which non-programmers such as the writer of this document can understand, while being as exact and correct as possible. It uses the well-known friend-of-a-friend analogie for this (FoF) and shows the major changes in the network since its introduction till this day.

If you want to use GnuFU on a commercial site, just ask me for a commercially usable licensed version, I'm very likely to say aye directly :)

Arne Babenhauserheide - wrote most of the document. It was opened to the public around the 30th of November 2003. Everything which changed since then belongs to the author of that part and shall be his or her responsibility (as far as that is possible). I'll still try to keep this structured and easy to read. If you want to make him happy, then take a look at his website (http://draketo.de)